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23 May 1915
Sunday Aeroplane downed
[indecipherable] at 4 with our [indecipherable] nothing doing artillery open at dawn & give the Turks sets our firing deadly, the mortars create great havoc amongst the Turks who when the gun is fired they leave the trench & our m guns then have a little exercise. While I was at A.P.C their 18 pounders opened on us & gave us quite an enjoyable time watching them blow our bully to bits snipers deadly again picking men off all round us. HMS [indecipherable] ran aground this morning & the Turks give her 5 Jess Willards but they do no harm & when they got her off they gave Jess What hi! The air has been full of planes alday ours & theirs, Biplanes, [indecipherable] & seaplanes. A mail has arrived today but none for us, the Vic lot has gone astray. Things quieten a lot along one front only a little rifle fire going on. Downing again requests to be allowed to regain his troop but no such luck. We got an aeroplane today with our arty & naturally are a little pleased. Bed at 9.15
24 May 1915
Monday 31 wks from home
9 hours armistice
An armistice was declared at 7.30 this morning till 4 pm to enable the Turks to bury their dead. I paid a visit to their trenches & went round in [indecipherable] the trenches & the dead lay on every hand, in every position attitude possible, some were 5 wks old & others only a few days. The scene was awful & I much want to look on death in the same form as I saw it this morning. We came on only 3 of our chaps & 2 of them were NLS. After lunch we went down for a swim & it was great, carried mail up but still none for us. Downing still here. Met a lot of the Sig Company chaps & they have lost 2 k & 8 wounded so they havnt done to bad. An attack started as soon as the white flag was lowered. I think we will take the aggressive from now. [indecipherable] Press reports that we are advancing in France for the last dust up